Alternatives to PagerDuty

A hosted incident management and on-call platform that routes alerts to responders and automates response. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • PagerDuty

    A hosted incident management and on-call platform that routes alerts to responders and automates response.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as PagerDuty.

  • incident.io

    Hosted reliability platform combining on-call paging, incident response, AI root cause analysis and status pages.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    incident.io combines on-call paging, incident response and status pages with a free plan to start, while PagerDuty is paid only.

  • Grafana Cloud IRM

    A hosted incident response service combining on-call scheduling, alert routing and incident management in Grafana Cloud.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Grafana Cloud IRM offers on-call scheduling and alert routing with mobile apps, billed per active user, but it is tied to Grafana Cloud.

  • Rootly

    A hosted incident management and on-call platform that runs incident response inside Slack and other chat tools.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    Rootly is also a paid hosted on-call and incident platform, but it centres incident response in Slack, Microsoft Teams or Google Chat and includes retrospectives.

  • FireHydrant

    Hosted incident management platform with on-call alerting, runbooks, status pages and post-incident retrospectives.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    FireHydrant is a hosted freemium platform with on-call, runbooks and status pages, and includes a migration tool for PagerDuty configuration.

  • OneUptime

    An open-source platform for uptime monitoring, status pages, incidents, on-call alerting and observability.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    OneUptime is an open-source Apache-2.0 platform with on-call alerting, monitoring and status pages that can be self-hosted, unlike the hosted-only PagerDuty.

  • ilert

    A hosted alerting, on-call management and status page service for operations teams, made in Germany.

    PaidProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    ilert is a paid hosted service made in Germany with on-call, alerts by push, SMS and voice, and status pages, with GDPR compliance.

  • PagerTree

    A hosted on-call scheduling and alert routing service for DevOps teams, with mobile apps.

    PaidProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    PagerTree is a paid hosted on-call and alert routing service with Android and iPhone apps and maintenance windows, aimed at DevOps teams.

  • SolarWinds Incident Response

    A hosted incident response service, formerly Squadcast, for alert handling, on-call schedules and escalations.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    SolarWinds Incident Response, formerly Squadcast, is a paid hosted service with alert deduplication, on-call rotations and escalations, and supports unlimited users on paid plans.

Also worth comparing

These listings name PagerDuty as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Keep

    A self-hostable, open-source alert management platform that deduplicates, correlates and routes alerts.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    PagerDuty is a paid hosted platform with on-call scheduling, alert routing and over 750 integrations, replacing a self-hosted open-source tool with a commercial service.

  • Spike.sh

    A hosted incident management and on-call service that alerts people by phone, SMS, WhatsApp and Slack.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    PagerDuty offers more than 750 integrations and AI agents for routine incident work, but it lacks the WhatsApp alerts that Spike.sh provides.

  • Xurrent IMR

    A hosted incident management and on-call alerting platform, formerly called Zenduty.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    PagerDuty is also hosted and paid, offering more than 750 integrations and automation with AI agents, which small teams may not need.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.